Word: widest
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...shot," adding that he supposed "hanging is the preferred method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a bill to make spying for money punishable by death, was even more draconian. "If there is an execution, it should be public and on television," he said. "I want the widest possible visibility of this kind of crime (to) deter people who may be starting down this road...
...formed to defend the University against students hell-bent on destruction of the school. It was broadly defined precisely because it needed the widest possible mandate to destroy the anti-war, anti-ROTC movement during the late sixties and early seventies. With few minor changes, the "war time" powers of the CRR remain today...
...active interest in the new technology and give them the funds and technical help they need to develop imaginative applications. As in all human enterprise, choosing the right participants will be crucial. By and large, the best teachers have thought most about how students learn and will attract the widest interest and command the greatest respect for the work they do in using technology in their courses. The greatest challenge for educators will be to find ways of persuading such teachers to develop a keen interest in lending their talents to this task...
...contracts in 1984), is only part of a broader fusillade that the Pentagon is aiming at the defense industry. Last week the Defense Department revealed that it has hit Pratt & Whitney for a refund of $40 million in higher-than-expected profits made supplying jet- engine spare parts. The widest barrel, however, remains pointed at General Dynamics, the country's top defense contractor, which found itself facing investigations by a federal grand jury in Connecticut and a congressional subcommittee as well as by Pentagon auditors (see following story...
NOTHING, IN FACT, is less conspiratorial than a Marxist working class organization whose success is entirely dependent upon the open and widest dissemination of its views. The FBI's agreement to change its definition of the Spartacist League implicitly but clearly spikes the government's deadly definition--that all political opponents are de facto terrorists. It is a modest but genuine blow to the new McCarthyism...